Ryan was later spotted getting a visit from the police in his first scenes for the soap

Michael, 27, will arrive with Agatha, his builder father Edison and his 19-year-old brother James.

Michael will be an entrepreneur dreamer while professional footballer James will become the cobbles’ newest gay character as the storyline sees him come out to his family in emotional scenes.

The new boss of the soap, Iain MacLeod, revealed he had long planned to bring in the show’s first black family at once since August.

And he revealed, it is long overdue, telling The Sun Online: “Why it taken so long to have a black family, I don’t know. To a degree it’s before my time, I wouldn’t presume to speak of others motivations. In the past, new families come in one person at a time, and I find that a harder way to do it which is why they all turn up at once [this time].

“Manchester has a large proportion of black residents, it did feel overdue that we did this and represented modern Manchester a bit more accurately. As to why it’s taken ‘til now I don’t know.”

The show will also tackle the issue of homophobia in football when younger son James comes out and faces both a homophobic and racist reaction at work as a player.

Iain added: “We wanted to look at homophobia in sport, and homophobia in football so that will be a component of the story but also we wanted to look at modern story about young gay man.

“So it won’t be your normal coming out story where we say James wrestling with his sexuality, we’re quite keen that he knows who he is, but has some apprehensiveness about telling his parents, and some apprehensiveness about his teammates finding out, that when we meet the character he’s on the cusp of bigger things football wise, and is also aware that despite the progress that we’ve made as a society, in lots of areas, homophobia on the terraces is fairly rampant.

“He’s scared about the reaction. But not because he's worried that his family will reject him.

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“Aggie will come off the phone and say she can't make it for Easter because she has a conference in Chicago. She's over there somewhere.

“We've not cast her yet - she will be an off screen presence a bit like Brenda from Streetcars - and will be a source of comedy friction around the dinner table and it'll be like ‘awww, your sister has just sent a picture of her new convertible’.

So hopefully there'll be some anticipation of the kind of character she is before she arrives.”

Coronation Street announce the newest additions to the long-running soap... the Bailey family